Auto-progragate changes in inherited methods

[Eric Parent]

Hello,

Please consider adding an auto-propagation of changes / updates in the inherited methods of a super-class into its sub-class.

Thanks!

- Eric

 8-)

[Makulik]

For the reasons already discussed (breaking contracts etc.), such feature should be optional anyway.
May be a better solution would be to have a kind of 'refactoring' feature, that allows to go to a specific operation in a base element, search for all occurrences in inheriting elements and commit to synchronize the signature with the base. Further this should allow to search for uses of the concerned operation as they are specified in any behavioral diagrams.

WBR
Günther

[Paolo F Cantoni]

For the reasons already discussed (breaking contracts etc.), such feature should be optional anyway.
May be a better solution would be to have a kind of 'refactoring' feature, that allows to go to a specific operation in a base element, search for all occurrences in inheriting elements and commit to synchronize the signature with the base. Further this should allow to search for uses of the concerned operation as they are specified in any behavioral diagrams.

WBR
Günther

I have long held that these kind of relationship related transformations should be specified as properties of the relationship.  Thus, the properties of the inheritance (such as: automatically add any new parent feature) should be specific to the relationship.

Paolo